Music Reviews
The Beatles - Please Please Me
With the Beatles catalog recently released in remastered form, the time is right to take another look at these albums and see how they hold up. In this review I’ll discuss the Beatles first album, “Please Please Me”.
With the song “Please Please Me” at number 1 on the UK …
Tanya Tucker: Can’t Run from Yourself CD
The reason I purchased Tanya Tucker: Can’t Run from Yourself on CD was because of the title song, which was used in the movie, Father Hood, starring Patrick Swayze. Father Hood didn’t have a soundtrack release, but fortunately, Tucker recorded the song here. I love the downbeat …
Kyuss - Beginning of what’s about to happen HWY 74 (song)
“Beginning of what’s about to happen HWY 74″ is the opening track on the debut album “Wretch” by the band Kyuss. This is very well my favorite song on “Wretch”. This song being that it is off their first album, features all the original members of the band. That …
Fergie - M.I.L.F. $
I’ve never been a huge fan of Fergie nor the Black Eyed Peas, don’t get me wrong I liked a few of their tracks like “Where Is The Love?” and Fergie’s solo carrier has some nice parts as well such as “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)“ …
The Flaming Lips - In A Priest Driven Ambulance (Album)
In A Priest Driven Ambulance is the fourth studio record released by The Flaming Lips. Comprised of ten tracks and a few bonus songs, In A Priest Driven Ambulance is the band’s follow-up to Telepathic Surgery. The main difference I can say about this record and the band’s preceding …
Daydream Nation, 1988 Album by Sonic Youth
It is difficult to overestimate the impact and quality of this record. The remarkable achievement that this record is should be considered in the context at which it was released. If an album like this was released in 1991, it would not have been a great album, but, as …
Can’t hold us down by Christina Aguilera
I really like this song. It’s absolutely the real thing that’s happening nowadays. I love how Christina sang this song which really gives justice to women. Even before women are being underestimated. They said that because we are women we cannot do this, we cannot do that. Other people …
Weezer - No Other One (Song)
No Other One is a song by Weezer which appears on their sophomore effort, Pinkerton. Though the very start of the track is pretty electric and upfront, the start of the verse calms down a bit and focuses on Rivers delivering the lyrics in a fairly melodic tone. Acting …
Andrew Jackson Jihad - We Didn’t Come Here To Rock (Song)
We Didn’t Come Here To Rock is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their album Can’t Maintain. Opening up with an incredibly frantic sound created by the guitar’s rhythm and drum pattern, the vocals join in the track soon enough and the characteristic vocal performance of …
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, 2000 Album by Oasis
Some people say that Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the first bad album by Oasis, while others say that it is their second bad album. But I disagree with both such statements. I disagree with the description of this album as a bad one. I think that …
Queen - We Are The Champions - Single
Queen, quite simply a legendary band, with the best entertainer of all time fronting the band. An absolute classic that is always played when a sports team wins a trophy in the U.K, is We Are The Champions.
What I love about this song is the very start. The way …
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 14″ (2007): R. Kelly
R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 14″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
If you spent some time wondering where the heck Sylvester went and what happened to him at the end of Episode 13, you will now get your answer. Apparently, he met up with Cathy at a restaurant to discuss how he …
Album : Alice Cooper - Killer (1971)
By the time KILLER was released in 1971, Alice Cooper the man had slowly but surely began creating his gothic and spooky character. Gone was the flower child inspired fruit rock and in it’s place a progressively inclined psychedelic hard rock sound that really shows the beginning of the …
Coldworker : The Contaminated Void
The band was formed in the city of Orebro in Sweden by Joel Fornbrant (vocals), Anders Bertilsson (guitar), Daniel Schrider (guitarist) , Oskar Palsson (bass), and Anders Jakobson (drums). A mix of personnel all-star of the genre of Thrash, DeathMetal, and Grindcore. They then released, debut album, The Contaminated …
Trans-Siberian Orchestra- The Lost Christmas Eve CD (Music)
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra has been becoming increasingly popular over the years, especially during the holiday season. I recently purchased The Lost Christmas Eve album, which, obviously is a Christmas album. It is hands down the best Christmas CD I have ever heard in my life. It …
Pancho and Lefty by Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson
Pancho and Lefty by Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson reminds me of a the wild west days. When I listen to it I can picture someone like Butch Cassidy riding off into the sunset after a robbery and being chased by the US Marshalls. I often visualize that it …
Clothes Off by Gym Class Heroes
Gym Class Heroes are an American band that I didn’t know of till recently. I first heard them with their first single from a new album on the radio airways and later bought their album.
Their second song to release with a video was “Clothes Off”
This song has a …
Womanizer Music Video by Britney Spears
I am a huge Britney Spears fan. I watch all of her music videos and memorize the words to all of her songs. I own every album and have so many posters all over my walls. Her concerts are amazing and the fact that she’s produced so many hit …
Breaking Benjamin-We Are Not Alone CD
I bought this CD when the song “So Cold” was playing on the radio everywhere. I really loved that song with its haunting melodies floating above a hard rock edge. Unfortunately, the rest of the CD fails to live up to the promise of that song. It’s …
Enya New Age (Alternative) Music Artist
As far as my musical taste goes, I would say that I am more of a soul, and rap type of guy, but there are always about four or five songs from all genres that I really enjoy and thus add to my collection.
Of all the genres though, I …
Slow Runner CD
This fantastic CD, the first release by the band Slow Runner features great musical ballads that will keep you singing well into
the night. Michael Flynn, the bands lead singer previously released the exact same album under his name, this re-release under the bands new name Slow Runner is all …
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Overview - Piece Of Mind, Iron Maiden’s fourth effort, continues to showcase the band’s great talent as well as Steve Harris’ brilliant songwriting. Piece Of Mind features one of Iron Maiden’s best known songs of all time, The Trooper, but also contains quite a few other good tracks. This …
Jack’s Mannequin: The Glass Passenger
Jack’s Mannequin has done it again. Lead singer and pianist Andrew McMahon has delivered another great album for fans everywhere. This album has many strong points and the lyrics create a beautiful picture for listeners.
Track one: Crashin’ has a great guitar/piano intro that blends into the …
“Gotham City” (1997): R. Kelly
R. Kelly
“Gotham City”
“Batman & Robin” Soundtrack
Director: Hype Williams
In this song and music video for “Gotham City”, R. Kelly desperately yearns and reaches for that academy-award winning success he had with “I Believe I Can Fly” from the “Space Jam” soundtrack. This is from the “Batman & Robin” soundtrack in …
Something About You (song by Level 42)
If someone asked me to pick out the members of 80’s group Level 42, I would never be able to do it. Even during the 1980’s when this song was popular, I would have no idea what these guys looked like. What I do remember distinctly about …
Jay Z
I don’t really like Jay Z as a rapper. I never liked his flow style or voice. But I do have to say I do like his diss songs and his hardcore lyrics. I don’t really like his commercial songs though. As a business man I have to respect him. …
Destination Anywhere
When I first heard the songs in the album Destination Anywhere, I feel less like the kind of music played by Jon Bon Jovi and accompanying musicians. At first, I was quickly bored with the composition of the tone that I find seem monotonous. This is very different from …
Smashing Pumpkins Adore Album
Smashing Pumpkins is a dreamy rock band that came to form in 1988. After 10 years and some lineup changes, the fantastic album Adore, Smashing Pumpkins’ 5th album, was born. This album contains a list of tracks that range anywhere from an upbeat, swift rock songs to relaxing, musing …
“Pale Shelter (song, Tears for Fears)
You don’t have to be a child of the 80’s to know that there is tons of music out there from this decade that is simply marvelous. Out of the 80’s came a group called Tears for Fears. Much of their music has been sampled in the …
Motorhead : Kiss Of Death
If you feel too old to rock music, then leave this kind of music. Please note, the mighty Motorhead Kiss Of Death release that is album from their 31 year existence in the music industry. Looks like Lemmy and his colleagues support extraordinary spirit of playing music. Stay strong …
Andrew Jackson Jihad - If You Have Love In Your Heart (Song)
If You Have Love In Your Heart is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad and is the eighth song on the record. Opening up with a simple acoustic guitar strumming pattern, the band establishes a very laidback and mellow atmosphere before the vocals come in and sing with a …
Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis
Bleeding Love is definitely a song that I can’t quite figure out. I am not sure if she has lost her love and that is why her love is bleeding or if it is that she love him so much that it hurts and that is why she is …
Tal Bachman by Tal Bachman CD
This CD has a great sound to it, definitely worthy of a review for epinions. If you don’t have this one, you need it!
Tal Bachman’s self titled CD includes the mega hit She’s So High, the one we all know and love. This CD was released in 1999 …
The Sound of Silence by Paul Simon
The song “The Sound of Silence” by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel a.k.a Simon and Garfunkel (who was a musical duo who became popular in the mid 60’s)was created with a great deal of wisdom. It was like the composer/s was in a trance while writing this. …
Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf
This album is a concept album of sorts, the theme being a desert radio station, Josh Homme drew inspiration for the album driving through the desert, he puts the listener in the car with him from LA to Mohave desert. This album features Dave Grohl (of the foo fighters …
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Overview - Powerslave, Iron Maiden’s fifth effort, continues with the same energy and intensity the group showed on their previous effort, Piece Of Mind. However, it also demonstrates that the songwriting of Steve Harris is maturing even further, particularly on the last two tracks. While Piece Of Mind contained …
The Rolling Stones - Casino Boogie (Song)
Casino Boogie is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Exile On Main St. The track opens up with a clean guitar riff which has a blues rhythm to it and once the song goes on for a bit, it becomes obvious that there’s certainly …
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
Well, if the previous album, The Final Cut, was a Roger Waters album, this one is David Gilmour. It’s funny how these two albums are so completely the opposite of eachother. I prefer this one though, if I was to choose between the two. You can pretty much guess …
Meghan Trainor - Like I’m Gonna Lose You (feat. John Legend)
From the moment I first heard “All About the Bass” more than a year ago, I instantly fell in love with Meghan Trainor. She gave something that not only reminded me of the 80’s but also the fact that she’s a newcomer, and with a concept that she’s trying …
Lorenzo Jovanotti A Te
Lorenzo Jovanotti is an Italian singer, he is very popular in his country but even outside of it.
This song won the Italian national contest of San Remo 2008 and it is a really beautiful song. Lorenzo is the author of most of his song so most of his songs …
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 (Song)
Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel and is the final track on their second album In An Aeroplane Over The Sea. Opening up with am ambient-like free atmosphere, this track goes on for about thirty seconds of just free noise effects before an acoustic …
CD Libertad by Velvet Revolver
I feel in love with the CD “Libertad” by Velvet Revolver the moment I stuck it in the CD player. I figured I would like it since I loved Slash and Duff from their Guns N Roses days. The songs on this cd put me in a …
Metallica - Some Kind Of Monster (Music Video)
Overview —“ Some Kind Of Monster, the fourth music video for Metallica’s record St. Anger, follows the band through various interviews, live shows, and recording during the time of St. Anger. In my opinion, one way to think of the music video of Some Kind Of Monster is to …
Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson
Always on My Mind is one of Willie Nelson’s best songs. It is a ballad about what he should have or did not do. Willie Nelson sings this song with a somber tone as is he is sad. That perhaps his wife or friend maybe has passed …
Flogging Molly - Salty Dog (Song)
Salty Dog is a song by Flogging Molly which appears on their album Swagger. The track starts off fairly quietly with just an acoustic guitar strumming a chord progression and then a fiddle playing a lead over it before the rest of the band comes in to double this …
The Rolling Stones - It’s All Over Now (Song)
It’s All Over Now is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album 12 X 5. The song is a cover so I can’t talk much about the parts themselves but I can talk about the execution of the song. The track starts out with a …
Bob Dylan - Absolutely Sweet Marie
Absolutely Sweet Marie is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Blonde On Blonde. In contrast to Dylan’s earlier folk works, the track opens up with an organ and Dylan quickly joining in with the main vocals. The organ stays prominent throughout the entire track and …
Independent Women, Part 1 (2000): Destiny’s Child
Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Independent Women, Part 1
Album: Survivor/”Charlie’s Angels” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Francis Lawrence
“Independent Women, Part 1″ is a single and music video off of the original motion picture soundtrack to the 2000 film adaptation of “Charlie’s Angels”. You know something, looking back on 2007’s “I …
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
This album is the pinnacle of Bob Dylan’s career.During this time he reinvented the way in which the public experiences popular music.His songwriting skills are without a doubt intense, humorous, porphetic, whimsical, and highly entertaining.I have never in my life heard a man’s voice that is completely distinctive and …
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